We are into our Timelapse Videos and this is a good one showcasing the UK’s Pavilion at the World Expo currently underway in Shanghai. Sit back and enjoy…
The UK Pavilion from Shanghai Expo Timelapse Machine on Vimeo.
Music: Wim Mertens – Often A Bird
The UK Pavilion from Shanghai Expo Timelapse Machine on Vimeo.
With a theme of “Better City, Better Life,” the 2010 Shanghai Expo is about creating and envisioning a better living in future urban environments. Expo 2010 will create blueprints for future cities and harmonious urban life styles, providing an extraordinary educational and entertaining platform for visitors from all over the world. Opening ceremony video below.
After a 33 month renovation costing an estimated 5 billion yuan (US$732 million) Shanghai’s famous Bund running alongside the Huangpu River has finally reopened as planned in time for May’s Shanghai Expo.
Gone is the 11-lane highway which has been cut down to four lanes, with 70 percent of the Bund’s traffic diverted into a two-tier underground tunnel. This has freed up space for a larger pedestrian promenade now stretching 2.6km with a staggering 2,000 park benches!
Below is a photo from 2009 of the Bund’s European architecture at night. Click here for a set of photos from the Shanghaiist of the newly opened Bund.
With only a few months now to the kick off of the Shanghai Expo 2010 the venues are nearing completion and the media buzz is starting to build up. To keep up to date with how construction is coming along a great photo essay can be seen at the Big Picture (photo below courtesy of Big Picture / Reuters / China Daily). Also a run down of some of the better buildings under construction at Lost Laowai will give you a taste of what to expect.
A set of photos here showing how the National Pavilions for the Shanghai Expo are coming on.
